When NoStarch Press contacted me a week or two so ago about doing a review about a book called “LEGO® Heavy Weapons”, I must admit I was a little skeptical. I am not a big fan of guns or violence but when I saw a PDF preview of this book [...]
Yesterday, the hosting company Schuberg Philis organised a LEGO day at its offices for all the employees and, of course, the kids. It was split into two parts, downstairs they had prepared a large auditorium with big tables full of LEGO for the younger kids and upstairs we had the [...]
You can now download version 3.12 of ROBOTC which also supports the Arduino, in addition to the already existing platforms such as NXT and Cortex! This is a beta release, and if you install it, it will replace whatever version you already have. I’ve never had major issues with betas [...]
There are currently issues with the Mindboards Forums. SF communicated this a few days ago and it seems the issues have not been resolved yet. There’s not a whole lot we can do about it, unfortunately. I would suggest you add SF.net Operations to your Twitter feeds, if you haven’t [...]
‘s robot! Yes, that’s right, you can reach out and play with Laurens’ Alpha Rex over the Big Interwebs! He made a cool looking web interface for it and allows you check out what it’s doing via a webcam! I did something similar a while back but not nearly as [...]
LEGO wants to know what you think! They’ve created a survey for people over the age of 13. So make your opinions count and fill out one of the surveys (pick a language of your choice), linked below. Dear LEGO fan, The LEGO fan community is important to us. To [...]
Some cool new stuff I’ve added support for the HumaRobotics WiFiBlock WiFI sensor. I’ve also been very busy the past two weeks working on a tutorial for the driver suite. This release also contains a couple of example programs that are discussed in the tutorial. Changelog * Added new driver [...]
Finally, after months and months of stalling, I have started and completed a tutorial for my Driver Suite. It actually took me a lot less effort than I originally thought it would, but I am happy with the result, as I am sure you will be. The tutorial will help [...]
(Almost) everything you wanted to know about arrays in ROBOTC but were afraid to ask. RoboDesigners have written up a quick explanation of how arrays work and help you visualise them. It has some ROBOTC specific code in it, but would probably work fine for most programming languages. Thanks for [...]
This installment of HispaBrick has a whopping 96 pages! I’m not going to mention all of the contents here, of course. Some of the highlights include: An interview with Jørgen Vig Knudstorp (LEGO’s CEO) Part 1 of a LEGO Pneumatics tutorial by none other than Kevin Clague An article by [...]
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